Take this post for example: https://www.reddit.com/r/northernireland/comments/1ll6ocg/see_it_say_it_censored_kneecap_is_not_the_story/
Speaking from experience, people in Ireland are overwhelmingly pro-palestine.
There is this user in the comments: https://www.reddit.com/user/EntireCourage308/
Its a nearly year-old account, it started posting about a month ago, it made some innoculous posts, then pivoted to posting far-right misinformation in the r/northernireland subreddit.
There’s loads of other accounts just like it.
Its easier to spot here, and since we’re split up into small severs, its easier to moderate.
It’s super easy to spot on reddit. Even easier than that?
There clearly aren’t that many bots (of all kinds, incl. humanoid) in the Lemmyverse (yet), so I guess they stand out more, but beyond that?
Hm. How so?
I learned early that admins (and possibly also mods) have more insight into user behavior, is that what you mean?
Beyond that the mod/admin structure is pretty much the same as on, say, reddit.
Everything is public, including votes.
Instance admins can notice if a lot of signups happen from a specific ip, email pattern or region.
Thank you for your patience.
I have yet to figure out how that works. Does Lemmy offer a way to look at these things? Like who voted?
The same goes for, say, reddit admins.
lemvotes.org
Admins can see who voted on what, as can moderators.
Instance admins would be less stretched out than reddit ones, since people are split across instances.
Instance admins also have motivation to remove them, as bots make money for reddit.